On this day: January 9

The Beatles jump up the charts, Howard Hughes exposes his fake biographer, "The Phantom of the Opera" passes "Cats," and Apple introduces iTunes and the iPhone, years apart, all on this day.

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1935: Actor Bob Denver, known for his roles as Gilligan on the sitcom "Gilligan's Island" and the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," is born in New Rochelle, New York. He died at age 70 on Sept. 2, 2005, of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer.

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